How do I replace AND (&&) in a for loop?

Question

I'd like to find an equivalent of

cmd 1 && cmd 2 && ... && cmd 20

but with commands expressed within a for loop like

for i in {1..20}
do
   cmd $i
done

What would you suggest to change in the second expression to find an equivalent of the first?

Answer 1

The equivalent to your original sequence would be:

for i in {1..20}
do
   cmd $i || break
done

The difference with Amit's answer is the script won't exit, i.e. will execute potential commands that might follow the sequence/loop. Note that the return status of the whole loop will always be true with my suggestion, this might be fixed if relevant in your case.

Answer 2

If you want a dirty one-line solution, you can create a command and send it to bash.

echo "cmd "{1..20}" &&" : | bash

Answer 3

You can break out of the loop if one of them failed

for i in {1..55}; do
    if ! cmd $i; then
        exit 1
    fi
done

Answer 4

This is how i execute my tasks in terminal without using &&

 for i in google.com yahoo.com;do ping -c1 $i;echo $i;done

Similar to you have to put this command in a script

 for i in google.com yahoo.com
    do echo $i;ping -c1 $i;
  done

Both giving same output to me

google.com PING google.com (172.217.26.174) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from google.com (172.217.26.174): icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=259 ms

--- google.com ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 259.794/259.794/259.794/0.000 ms yahoo.com PING yahoo.com (98.138.253.109) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from yahoo.com (98.138.253.109): icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=398 ms

--- yahoo.com ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 398.974/398.974/398.974/0.000 ms